InfoComm 2015 is right around the corner. Manufacturers are in full swing with their show preparations, attendees are getting registered, booked into hotels and primed for all the educational offerings...
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Audio guys are possibly the most opinionated and pompous folks in the AV industry. Over the years of dealing with them, it’s become my opinion that the senior members of...
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Back in 2003 I had just graduated from college with my BA in broadcasting with an emphasis in audio production. I was just starting out my career in audio with...
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A Look Back At The Last 2 Years At this point in January 2013 I was preparing to leave a job I greatly enjoyed for a manufacturer in order to...
Read More“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly… timey-wimey… stuff.” -The Doctor Doctor Who...
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At the start of 2014 I found myself fortunate to be asked to participate with the InfoComm Standards and Industry Innovations group. I know that the term standards in the...
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Well…sort of today… Those that know me best would probably agree with the fact that two words that describe me are ‘sentimental’ and ‘cynical’. While probably not the first words...
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We are just a few days away from the start of the 3 day training sessions at InfoComm 2014 in sweltering Las Vegas, NV. So it was time to start...
Read MoreFew things in sound system design have caused me more frustration than someone asking me for a quick, one size fits all solution for how many distributed audio speakers should...
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How often does it occur to us that on some level we’re all hypocrites? In an industry, and world in general, where we are paid to think forward and...
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One of the first things I wrote for this website was a general frustration and call to action for the A/V industry as a whole. I still maintain that we,...
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I’m not exactly new to the trade show game. I may not have the decades of experience that so many in the Audio/Visual industry have, but I’ve seen enough to...
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Why is it every time I hear people talk about the next evolution in signal distribution methods it seems to be that there can be only one? Right now the...
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I’ve been seeing the year end posts popping up as early as a two weeks ago; discussions of the best of the year 2013 and ways to make 2014 even...
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If you followed the conversations from Infocomm 2013, the podcasts from the back rooms, and all the articles that have since been written, you would have heard that Infocomm 2013...
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I’ve always feel very honored and privileged when I get asked to participate at a conference as a panelist of any kind where I can help people get a better...
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There are two employee development methods instilled in the AV industry that have been around since the beginning. As our industry evolved from being part of the Electrical Union groups...
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One of the great advantages of current technology is that we get to literally start with a blank slate when it comes to how we want to process our audio...
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For an industry that is solely based around improving the broadcast and receipt of communicated messages, why, as an industry, does it seem we have fallen off the rails in...
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When you listen to a song that you haven’t heard before, what is it that draws your attention? Is it the beat that gets you moving? Is it the lyrics...
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